Improvement in holders for neck-ties



WILLIAM HENRY HART, JR., OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Pfam N 102,259, camz April 26,1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOLDERS FOR NECK-TIES.

The Schedule referredto in these Letters Patent and making part of the same I, Wmmm HENRY HART, Jr., of Philadelphia,

county of Philadelphia, Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented an improved device for Attaching Elastic Loopsto Neck-tie Holders, of which the following is a y specification.

Nature a'ndObject of the Invention.

Description of the Accompanying Drawings.

Figures 1 and 2 are front and rear views of a necktie holder with my device for attaching the elastic loop to the same. s

Figure 3, an enlarged view of the plate from which the fastening device is formed.

Figure 4, a perspective view ofthe fastening device and loop complete.`

Figures 5 and 6, edge views, also enlarged, of the fastener and loop, showing the method of attaching the same to the holder.

Figure 7 aperspective view of a inodilication, and

Figure 8, an edge view of iig. 7 as it appears when attached to the holder'.

General Description.

lo overcome this objection, various metallic fasteners, arranged to clamp the ends of the elastic loop andto be attached to the shield or'holder, have been devised. Most of these fasteners, however, 'are inconveniently large, and project outward fron the inner side of the holder, preventing it from lying in close' contact with the collar-band, and also detracts from the neat appearance of the holder, while all of them are arranged to be permanently secured to the latter, so that, incase of the breaking ofthe loop, the

said fasteners can only be detached with great diffieulty, or the holder must be thrown aside as useless.

In my invention, which has been designed with'the view of overcoming these latter objections, the fastening device consists of a simple plate of thin sheet metal cut to the shape shown in fig. 3, and then bent by any suitable mechanism to the form best observed in fi 4.

The finished plate, indicated by the letter F in the drawing, consists of two bent arms, a a, between which and the body of the plate the opposite ends of the elastic loop are securely clamped, and of a hook or flat tongue, b, above these clamps, and at the opposite sides of the plate, which is arranged to be inserted through an oblong opening, 1v, in lthe shield A.

The fastener, when attached to the Shield by means of its hook, b, as shown in fig; 6, restsagainst the front side of the same, so that the latter can lie closely against the collar-band, while the elastic loop lies passed beneath and upward on the opposite side of the said shield,- so that there can be no tendency of" the fastening to become accidentally unhooked, and the loop itself, being tightly clamped to the said fastener, will not be liable to become detached. l

Inasmuch as the tongue b is flat' instead of round,

' as in ordinary retainers, it will not turn in the opening in whichit is inserted, the retention of the holder in its proper position being thus insured.

If the elastic loop, after having been used for atime, should become worn out or broken, it can, t0- gether with its fastener, be readily unhoolredfrom the shield and a new loop and fastener be as readily attached to the latter.

The fastening-plate might in some instances be provided with a lip, t', to be bent around the lower edge of the shield after inserting the hook b through the opening x, as shown in igs.`7 and 8, but I prefer the plan first described on account of the readiness with which the fastener can be attached to or detached from the shield.

Claims.

l. The within-described fastener F, consisting of arms a a bent to clamp the opposite ends ofthe elastic loop B, and a flat hook or tongue, l), all arranged as described.

2. The said fastener F, when provided with atongue` or lip, fi, arranged to be bent around the lower edge of the shield.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WM. HENRY HART, JR.

Witnesses z LOUIS BoswnLL, F. B. RICHARDS. 

